How to Add Music to iPhone from iTunes without Syncing

Your Problem: You want to get that Blue Scholars song or the Les Miserables soundtrack from iTunes on your computer onto your iPhone, but you absolutely do NOT want to erase/delete all the music on your iPhone that comes with “syncing” your music to the iTunes library.

Short Answer: 1. Create a playlist (or use an old one) of the songs you want to add.

2. Under “Devices”, your iPhone should be displayed, showing that your iPhone is connected to your computer.

3. Under your iPhone, there is a “Music” tab for you to click on. Click on that.

4. At the bottom of iTunes there should be an option called “Autofill from” as you can see in the picture below. From “Autofill from”, you should be able to select that playlist of the music you added. In the picture below, the playlist I’ve selected is “New.” On the extreme right, click “Autofill.”

Disclaimer: My version of iTunes is 10.6.3 (25). I’m too lazy to check if it’s the absolute latest version of iTunes, but considering that my Macbook Pro is a 2012, it’s probably one of the more recent versions of iTunes. I don’t know any of the history of Autofill on iTunes, and I’m not in the curious mood right now. I am not sure how it works, but hey I’ve got my music.

Long Answer/My Story: For as long as I’ve had a 2nd Mac and my iPhone, I couldn’t add songs onto my iPhone. I searched far and wide for solutions, including Senuti, which only lets you add music from the iPhone onto the computer, without using iTunes.

I wasn’t able to add new music to my iPhone for quite a while.

Then voila, a few days ago, I ran into the solution in the link above.

I wrote this just as an affirmation and clearer set of instructions than described in the link.

An impressive share! I’ve just forwarded this onto a co-worker who had been doing a little research on this. And he actually ordered me lunch due to the fact that I found it for him… lol. So allow me to reword this…. Thank YOU for the meal!! But yeah, thanx for spending the time to discuss this matter here on your web page.

I’m impressed, I have to admit. Seldom do I encounter a blog that’s both equally educative and amusing, and let me tell you, you’ve hit the nail on the head. The problem is something which too few folks are speaking intelligently about. I’m very happy that I came across this during my hunt for something regarding this.

THANK YOU. I’ve been trying to add a particular album my friend gave me via CD, and I have a different iTunes library than the one my iPhone is currently synced to. Of course my thought was to take all my music off my iPhone, put it into the new iTunes library, and then proceed to sync my iPhone, but of course all the third-party software that does this costs $10+. What I should have done was THIS, finding a way to just add the single album to my phone. So glad I came across this page. Thanks again.

I’ve given up on iTunes… Maybe it’s a better application on Mac, but on Windows it’s just horrible. Too slow, takes too much memory, too much screen space… The only thing I needed it for is managing content on my iPhone and I found PhoneStick for that, it just allows me to transfer files as if it was some flash drive – http://softorino.com/products/

It`s not a better application on Mac, believe me
I use WALTR also produced by Softorino. No using iTunes is needed as well.And this app supports all video&music formats.You just drag and drop – htttp:/softorino/waltr.com

great article. i wish i’d understood what autofill did before i hit it. right now i’m stuck in limbo trying to cancel 1.4gb of music iTunes wants to add to my iPhone 4. The 100s of songs that haven’t synced yet are greyed out on both my device & itunes. add to mix that my laptop with the library synced to iTunes is toast and its going to be a blast figuring this one out. it’s hilarious- i got on today to delete some music & free up space on my phone to download ios7, and i end up selecting autofill to fill up all the remaining space! genius
BUT, that lead me to your article, which is awesome. Now I understand the capability autofill provides and at least i’ll get to make it my bitch once i get this current situation figured out ;)

It keeps telling me my iPhone is synced to another library and that I would have to erase it and sync if I want to add these songs. I have tons of songs in this library that I sync with another device, but for my iPhone I just want to get one playlist, so I manually select the playlist…

The things is it’s the same library that I’ve always used to update and sync my iPhone :/ if I erase and sync the ‘new library’ what files and data would be ‘erased’? My photos and messages?

I’m using version 11 on Itunes. My phone is plugged to my PC. But in iTunes, when I click the “music”tab on my iPhone device, it shows this http://postimg.org/image/fwpddy5ld/ I can’t find how you came to the screenshot you’ve uploaded and I’m sure more people are the same as me. Your “solutin” has no explanation at all. Please, be more detailed. There is that “devices” tab you speak of? How do you go to your music list without syncing?…………

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